Kaleb Knoblauch
@kjknoblauch.bsky.social
I think about comics in/as/about history. Occasionally, I write it down.
Father of three wonderful boys.
Cubs fan.
Father of three wonderful boys.
Cubs fan.
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It was 50 years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald set out on her doomed trek across Lake Superior. Slide through our detailed images looking back at her final voyage. 🛎️🛎️
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It was 50 years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald set out on her doomed trek across Lake Superior. Slide through our detailed images looking back at her final voyage. 🛎️🛎️
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
"You there boy! What inning is it?"
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
"You there boy! What inning is it?"
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biblically accurate pitch count
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
biblically accurate pitch count
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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If you are a Republican, and you have a kid with an IEP, this is the moment when you understand that you may support Republicans, but they don't support your family.
The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
If you are a Republican, and you have a kid with an IEP, this is the moment when you understand that you may support Republicans, but they don't support your family.
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Comic books are (and this isn’t hyperbole) the greatest story telling medium that has ever existed. The combination of text and images rendered with a human hand is the most direct path from one mind to another. All other medium pale in comparison.
Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?
October 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Comic books are (and this isn’t hyperbole) the greatest story telling medium that has ever existed. The combination of text and images rendered with a human hand is the most direct path from one mind to another. All other medium pale in comparison.
I saw someone say the other day that we are all living through a cultural gas leak. And, honestly, there is no better metaphor.
Ted Cruz just posted a video montage with photos of every Democratic senator altered to make them wear sombreros and mustaches. It’s set to the song Macarena.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
![Ted Cruz v @tedcruz
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The 44 Senate Democrats who voted for Schumer's Shutdown should know that the Sombrero posting will continue until they re-open our government.
Hey, Macarena!
[photo of Amy Klobuchar that’s been altered]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreihzy5o4jbdm4g43y5brn35hk6yo7jgqkilxznay76cszd55s7ms74@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I saw someone say the other day that we are all living through a cultural gas leak. And, honestly, there is no better metaphor.
If the only thing that my kids said, by way of eulogy, was that I showed them that I loved them by crouching over very sharp pins and very dead bugs for their collection, I'd be content.
September 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
If the only thing that my kids said, by way of eulogy, was that I showed them that I loved them by crouching over very sharp pins and very dead bugs for their collection, I'd be content.
I'm guessing none of the powers that be at Disney/ABC were still paying attention at the "Oppression is the mask of fear" part of Andor, but it'd be neat if they checked that episode out.
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I'm guessing none of the powers that be at Disney/ABC were still paying attention at the "Oppression is the mask of fear" part of Andor, but it'd be neat if they checked that episode out.
The stupidity is only matched by the spineless.
I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’
The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.
www.vulture.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The stupidity is only matched by the spineless.
2025 marks the fifth year talking comics history with @paisleylizard.bsky.social, @bethpollard.bsky.social, and @yidcaledon.bsky.social at #RCCC!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our panel on artificial life in comics across time and space.
Looking forward to next year!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our panel on artificial life in comics across time and space.
Looking forward to next year!
September 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
2025 marks the fifth year talking comics history with @paisleylizard.bsky.social, @bethpollard.bsky.social, and @yidcaledon.bsky.social at #RCCC!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our panel on artificial life in comics across time and space.
Looking forward to next year!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our panel on artificial life in comics across time and space.
Looking forward to next year!
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The goal is to make anything -- ANYTHING -- that P2025 views as problematic obscene. Lou Reed's "Take a Walk on the Wild Side"? Obscene. You can be arrested and charged for just listening to it.
This is foundational censorship, dressed in the same bullshit Christian Values/Protect the Children bs.
This is foundational censorship, dressed in the same bullshit Christian Values/Protect the Children bs.
This bill would criminalize pornography by legally redefining what it means to be obscene.
Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!
Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!
August 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The goal is to make anything -- ANYTHING -- that P2025 views as problematic obscene. Lou Reed's "Take a Walk on the Wild Side"? Obscene. You can be arrested and charged for just listening to it.
This is foundational censorship, dressed in the same bullshit Christian Values/Protect the Children bs.
This is foundational censorship, dressed in the same bullshit Christian Values/Protect the Children bs.
It's an absolute tie between The Good Place and Derry Girls, and I'm also putting them above the GOAT list.
Take away all the GOAT candidates: The Wire, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and Lost.
What’s the best show outside of that group?
What’s the best show outside of that group?
August 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's an absolute tie between The Good Place and Derry Girls, and I'm also putting them above the GOAT list.
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The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
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far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic
July 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic
Action Comics #1 should probably just be required elementary school reading.
i can’t believe we handed over control of everything to people who are this fucking stupid
July 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Action Comics #1 should probably just be required elementary school reading.
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8-year-old girls are being returned to their parents in body bags and this man is in charge.
Reporter: Are you investigating whether some of the cuts to the federal government left key vacancies at the national weather service?
Trump: They didn’t.. That water situation that all is and that was really the Biden setup. That was not our setup. But I wouldn't blame Biden for it either.
Trump: They didn’t.. That water situation that all is and that was really the Biden setup. That was not our setup. But I wouldn't blame Biden for it either.
July 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
8-year-old girls are being returned to their parents in body bags and this man is in charge.
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NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland.
Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”
Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”
July 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland.
Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”
Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”
Mr. Blobby, and the image is more zoomed in for each denomination.
July 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Mr. Blobby, and the image is more zoomed in for each denomination.
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Since I haven't seen anyone talking about it, I think it's useful go situate Alligator Alcatraz in the context of the LAST time the US conducted a major ethnic cleansing in the Everglades.
The Seminole Wars spanned nearly fifty years, one of the signatures of Andrew Jackson's presidency.
The Seminole Wars spanned nearly fifty years, one of the signatures of Andrew Jackson's presidency.
July 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Since I haven't seen anyone talking about it, I think it's useful go situate Alligator Alcatraz in the context of the LAST time the US conducted a major ethnic cleansing in the Everglades.
The Seminole Wars spanned nearly fifty years, one of the signatures of Andrew Jackson's presidency.
The Seminole Wars spanned nearly fifty years, one of the signatures of Andrew Jackson's presidency.
This is unacceptable, and it is imperative that @historians.org loudly and actively resist this obviously anti-democratic restriction of public access to public documents.
June 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is unacceptable, and it is imperative that @historians.org loudly and actively resist this obviously anti-democratic restriction of public access to public documents.
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just block the senior member of the federal govt, this is not the place to demonstrate your fearless posting skills, you will get your life ruined for it
June 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
just block the senior member of the federal govt, this is not the place to demonstrate your fearless posting skills, you will get your life ruined for it